MedPage Today July 9, 2024
— Italian study emphasizes the role of RSV prophylaxis
The COVID-19 pandemic had an upside for lockdown babies: substantially less wheezing and bronchiolitis, according to an Italian retrospective cohort study.
One or more wheezing episode by age 30 months was observed in 44% fewer babies born while stay-at-home orders were in effect compared with of those born during the same months in 2016 and 2017 (9.4% vs 15%, P<0.001), reported researchers led by Carlo Giaquinto, MD, of the University of Padua, Italy.
Wheezing episodes occurred at a rate of 67.6 per 10,000 person-months among the lockdown group and 110.0 per 10,000 person-months in the historical group, according to the research letter published in JAMA Network Open.
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